- Google and Microsoft agree to reduce carbon impact by using RE for their data centres.
- The corporation anticipates being completely or nearly carbon-free by 2025.
Both Google and Microsoft have made new commitments to use renewable energy sources in their data centres, reducing the carbon impact of their IT operations. For example, to power its facilities in the UK, Google has entered into a power purchase agreement (PPA) with the French utility company Engie for 100 MW of energy produced by the Moray West offshore wind farm. Likewise, Microsoft announced PPAs to supply its data centres in Ireland with more than 900 MW of renewable energy.
According to the research, Statkraft and Ireland’s Energia Group are two companies associated with a combination of wind and solar projects, even though Microsoft did not reveal its renewable energy providers. Google also said the new agreements would help the business to entirely run its cloud regions and UK offices on carbon-free energy by 2030. The corporation anticipates being completely or nearly carbon-free by 2025, thanks to the most recent PPA signed with Engie.
According to Matt Brittin, president of Google EMEA, climate change is a subject that worries people in the UK and Europe more and more. According to the newspaper, the action follows past agreements by both firms to purchase renewable energy in the US. For example, a contract for 900MW of solar energy to power a Texas data centre was inked by Google and a SoftBank subsidiary, SB Energy. At the same time, Microsoft and AES Corporation recently agreed to a 20-year contract to supply renewable energy to Microsoft’s data centres in California from 110 MW solar and 55 MW four-hour storage projects.